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She can't quack, and she can't eat, but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it, Ringo(...)
She can't quack, and she can't eat, but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it, Ringo(...)

She can't quack, and she can't eat, but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it, Ringo(...)

Date11/3/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: She can't quack; and she can't eat; but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it; Ringo; a femal mallard duck; has eluded Humane Society would-be rescuers for days.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003950F
Sipping bits of nourishment through tiny opening in beak-held almost shut by beverage can ring-Ringo still survives
Sipping bits of nourishment through tiny opening in beak-held almost shut by beverage can ring-Ringo still survives
11/6/1971
Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)
Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)
5/14/1991
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
12/13/1971
Fair warning for water fowl. Ducks wintering on Grenadier Pond can ignore the warning sign but you had better not. It got as warm as 11C (52F) yesterd(...)
Fair warning for water fowl. Ducks wintering on Grenadier Pond can ignore the warning sign but you had better not. It got as warm as 11C (52F) yesterd(...)
12/20/1988
Waddle you bet? It's thin ice for us - but not for long if this weather continues - at High Park's Grenadier Ponds
Waddle you bet? It's thin ice for us - but not for long if this weather continues - at High Park's Grenadier Ponds
12/7/1976
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
2/27/1974
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
2/3/1975
Scores of ducks-but not Ringo-paddle along the shore of Lake Ontario as Humane Society Inspector John McArthur tosses bread crumbs and corn to them to(...)
Scores of ducks-but not Ringo-paddle along the shore of Lake Ontario as Humane Society Inspector John McArthur tosses bread crumbs and corn to them to(...)
11/10/1971
Calling for ringo, Canada's duck-calling champ Ray Baldakin, of Etobicoke, tests his sound as he gets ready to try to lure duck with beak held shut by ring. [Incompelte]
Calling for ringo, Canada's duck-calling champ Ray Baldakin, of Etobicoke, tests his sound as he gets ready to try to lure duck with beak held shut by ring. [Incompelte]
11/11/1971
Prowling Grenadier Pond today with his Labrador retriever, Gunner, Canada's duck-calling chmapion Ray Baldakin carries a net in case the sound of his quacking lures elusive Ringo, the mallard duch with her bill sealed shut.
Prowling Grenadier Pond today with his Labrador retriever, Gunner, Canada's duck-calling chmapion Ray Baldakin carries a net in case the sound of his quacking lures elusive Ringo, the mallard duch with her bill sealed shut.
11/12/1971
Mallard Duck was accidentally evicted by bull dozer today and her nest and 12 eggs she had been hatching were destroyed at construction site
Mallard Duck was accidentally evicted by bull dozer today and her nest and 12 eggs she had been hatching were destroyed at construction site
4/29/1972
Ring-necked Duck
Ring-necked Duck
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